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Becoming Less — with Trinidad Garcia

A 4-day intensive of deceleration, eros, and the identities that live underneath our performances 🎭

In this intensive we practice a soft stripping-away of the “should,” the polished self, the efficient self. We slow down until we can feel the somatic body again — the body that freezes, reaches, braces, performs ❄️🤲🛡️🎬 and the body that can also listen, choose, and play.

Across four days we invite unfamiliar parts of us to take the lead. To speak through movement, voice, gaze, touch, and silence 💃🗣️👁️🤍🤫

We practice decentering the “main character” of our identity, and noticing the inner hierarchies.

We pause ⏸️ We rest from the demands 🍂

In silence, listening appears 👂 In listening, need emerges 🌱


From there, eros and improvisation begin.


Come if you’re curious about becoming less of what you think you should be 🌸 and more of what you actually are, when you’re not rushed 🌌

🖤 Guilty Pleasures 🖤

CHAPTER I: FORBIDDEN - with Liisa Fatuma (they/she)
Days 1+2 of the intensive

A mission to travel to hidden places in us.

Who else can we be if we allow it? Which uncomfortable things in us can we value? How vulnerable can we be about our weirdness?

A kinky invitation to go into aspects of ourselves that we feel ambivalent about, hopefully have some fun with it, and maybe create more peace about how we are.

Addressing nuances of temptation that feel slightly dark or forbidden, we will create settings of intentional power hierarchies and play with exposing, holding, maybe grabbing, pressing, slapping, scratching and more.

No need to be experienced in the field of kink to participate, and you can always skip any part of any suggestion that we give you. If you want, you can explore and also challenge yourself here.

Touch & Play Cologne: 28 April - 3 May

Come play with us! cologne.touchandplay.org

Hi lovely people, just a quick message before we bring you more video teasers 🪶

If you've been considering joining us at T&P Cologne this year, but haven't registered yet, now is a good time to do so! We only have a couple of the Early Bird tickets left 🦕 once those are gone, the price goes up by 70€. Give your future self a gift and sign up now 🔮

🧬Attuning Permeability — with David Schäppi 🌀

At the core of this dance intensive is our ability to be permeable — in encounters, in movement, and with touch.

Our longing for flow, connection, and intimacy is tricky — these states can’t be produced on demand.
Like falling asleep, they come to us

Rather than adding more through trying and wanting, we explore how to be reached — how to be moved — how to let the world come to us.

Our journey begins in the body.
We dance 💃
We play 🎲
We meet 👥

We explore falling and expanding through relaxation — not forcing, but letting go and welcoming the unknown ✨

Falling can become flying… 🕊️

A space to research with soft precision — to slow down, settle the nervous system, and relate from within 🤲

🖤 Guilty Pleasures 🖤

CHAPTER II: PERMITTED - with Tom Segal
Days 3+4 of the intensive

We long to be authentic, loving and rebellious 🌊 At the same time, we long for safety, predictability, belonging and conformity 🍂

Between these polarities, we fear mistakes. We fear hurting others, being criticized or being seen too clearly 👁️

Do we dare to meet our shame and guilt, neither sinking into them nor running away from them? Can we let our stumblings inspire us into deeper contact with ourselves?

What would it be like to playfully compete over whose story is the most shame-soaked or guilt-loaded? 😈

What happens when you confess your “sins” inside a church of your own design? ⛪

We will approach our shame and guilt shyly but deliberately. We will use tools from conscious BDSM and kink, playback and improvisation theatre and authentic relating ⛓️🎭🤍

Touch&Play Cologne: 28 April - 3 May

Come play with us! cologne.touchandplay.org

🔮 Beyond the seen - with Kiku Roth‍

Exploring the unknown within yourself and in relation to others.

In a world that demands speed ⚡ and numbness 🧊

attuning to your senses 👂 and moving at the pace of trust 🐢 becomes an act of resistance.

Start with discovering the juiciness of movement 💃 and the touch you can offer yourself 🤲 then enter a blindfolded CI Jam 🌀 dancing together beyond what can be seen 👁️

As soft 🪶 sensual 💋 or sexy 🔥 as you want it to be.


✊ Patriarchy in motion - with Kiku Roth

A shared experiential space to explore how patriarchal structures shape our lives and inner worlds 🧠🫀

A place for feeling 💧 moving 💃 and shifting what often becomes frozen ❄️ stuck 🪨 or overwhelming 🌊

Through witnessing 👀 expression 🗣️ and shared presence 🤲 we create space for what has been held alone for too long.

From there, we move toward our collective capacity for change 🌅

Reconnecting with agency 🔑 resilience 🌳 solidarity, and the power of community 🌺

🌍Acting Upon the World, From the Inside Out - with Arvid Jense

How do we act in the world without losing ourselves in reaction, burnout, or abstraction?

This workshop offers a rehearsal space for meaningful action — where intimacy, reflection, and responsibility meet ✨

👥 Meeting the Unwelcome Guest - with Arvid Jense

This workshop explores community shadow work through embodied and relational practice. We begin with movement and stillness, sensing what in us wants attention 🌒

The intention is not catharsis but integration: making shadow material contactable and gaining tools to work with difficult inner states and collective dynamics.

We love our kitchen team; great vibes, AMAZING food, lots of fun and... they look sooo good 🫠

You can look forward to being treated by their yummies throughout the festival 😋

As they mention in the video, we are preparing a special sensual dining experience for you 💦✨🪄🪢


To get an even better idea of what else to expect from the programme, we have put together a rough timetable 🔮

🎨 Body prints - with Anne Hüsges

Explore your body through the creative practice of watercolor printings.

👁️ Seeing & Being Seen - with Anne Hüsges

A guided whole-body gazing ritual. With clear agreements, shared consent and gentle structure, participants explore what happens when they allow themselves to look and to be looked at — openly, slowly and with presence.

Unfortunately, Trinidad cannot join us and offer her intensive class. However, we are excited to share that we have found a very worthy replacement ✨

🧊 Fucking Problems – Playful Explorations; with Beate Absalon

“Am I good enough?” “Am I normal enough?” “Am I doing this right?” – honestly, who has never worried about their own sexual performance? When we turn to the world with our problems we are usually offered supposedly easy solutions that promise a better outcome. But what if our problems are actually the answer? Then what actually is the question?

Magic happens when we listen. And these workshops turn our problems into muses, inspiring us to live intimacy differently and getting curious instead of ‘functioning’.

Good morning everyone! ☀️

🎊 The festival is coming up and we are super excited to welcome you.

💌If you have already signed up, you should have gotten an email yesterday with useful information and also a telegram link to the participants group where we will post further infos and it also might be useful for finding peers to ride with to the festival.

Hope to see you all next Tuesday ❤️😈